Apple allegedly doctored evidence in patent case against Samsung

Apple has managed to block sales of the Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 in Australia and in the European Union, but new evidence from Computerworld’s Dutch sister site Webwereld.nl suggests the iPad maker may be tampering with evidence. According to the report, Apple is using an image of the Galaxy Tab 10.1 that is purposely distorted to look more like the iPad. The Galaxy Tab 10.1 is presented with an aspect ratio of 1.36 (the proportions of the device itself, not the display) while the iPad is shown with a 1.30 aspect ratio. However, the Galaxy Tab 10.1 tablet itself actually has a 1.46 aspect ratio. “This is a blunder,” Klos Morel Vos & Schaap lawyer Arnout Groen told Webwereld.nl. “That such a ‘mistake’ is made in a case about design rights can scarcely be a coincidence. The aspect ratio of the alleged Galaxy Tab is clearly distorted to match the iPad more closely. Inasmuch as this faux pas will have consequences for the case is of course up to the judge. But at least a reprimand by the German court seems to be in order,” he added. Samsung is set to appeal the European Union ban on August 25th. Read on for a comparison image of the alleged doctored Galaxy Tab 10.1 next to the real one.

Though in this particular case, things are far more interesting (to say the least), and Apple’s legal team has quite a bit to answer for (besides really bad PhotoShop editing).

If Apple’s case has merit, then so be it, but they shouldn’t be allowed to go around altering images/tampering with evidence in hopes of cheating the system.

If this is as it appears, I say – Don’t Be Evil Apple!

Anonymous

Notice that the app drawer is open to make honeycomb look like iOS when it actually looks nothing like it.

Ldb

and the text in the doc reads “(vi) if the product is switched on, colored icons within the display.” Colored icons when it is swtiched on!!!!!

Anonymous

Perhaps those were the original galaxy tab’s..whatever the case…Busted!!!

Anonymous

Ditto!

http://twitter.com/Kevniv Kevin N

Apple = Assclowns

Anonymous

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Anonymous

Please find a way to stop this shit Discuss

clackerd

Well duh, its aspect ratio is 1.46 in landscape mode, not portrait mode.

Anonymous

are you suggesting… that the aspect ratio… changes?

Anonymous

also, it’s not just a simple case of “oh they made it smaller to make it fit in the same space as an ipad” no they also made it wider to make it look like an ipad.

Lolmoney

lol rim

http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Fuller/584626026 Mike Fuller

Wow… That is brutal!!!!

Anonymous

silly apple gonna try to patent the rectangle?!

Anonymous

thats what i was thinking, what does it matter what the dimensions are?!

marK

bag of dicks…..apple

Paddy

Don’t forget the Android UI they used was not the comparable homescreen.

http://twitter.com/brianMedeiros Brian M

as much as i want to hate apple for this, its more the fault of the courts on this one. Why would they make a decision about a products look and feel with out the real product? why would you compare it only on photos, and only on photos that cant be defended?

If you cant tell the defendant that their product is under attack until after the decision is made then you have a responsibility to make sure your choice is based more then on just photos some one showed you.

Banning a product like this affects peoples jobs around the world. the German courts owes those people an apology

Anonymous

Yeah, stupid foreigners. But Apple… ALMIGHTY Apple, had to stoop this low to stop sales of a competitor?! I mean, c’mon, we all know android tablet sales aren’t booming (yet), but they had to do all this!? As if I couldn’t hate Apple anymore, this is by far the lowest of the lows. This isn’t HTC, LG, or some wannabe OEM trying to get the edge on a “big player” — This is from Apple of all people.

I want to see the court disciplined for this, and Apple needs a heavy fine, and possible suspension of their own devices. I cannot wait to see the lawsuits from this.

Smart Guest

Yeah fine em, and make it hefty… They dont need the $80 billion that is sitting in their banks…

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

This dude is true fanboy. Even with raw evidence of Apple themselves doctoring evidence, they blame someone else.

I’m sure that 60+ year old judge knows his way around technology really well.

Anonymous

Guys cmon, Apple invented the 4:3 aspect ratio. Thought you knew!

Anonymous

They also invented the Patent. They are intitled to royalties of anything patented!

http://www.absolutefiction.com Jed Tylman

I also heard that they invented the rectangle!
File this one under rumor!
LOL

http://MobileGenius.wordpress.com JM

Side-by-side photos should be used for such comparisons anyways.

Sam The Man

So where are all the “BGR are a bunch of pro Apple faggots” crowd now? Are they finally content that BGR has posted something “Anti Apple?” I want answers.

Anonymous

I’ll tell you the difference, if this was about RIM. The headline would read “RIM Doctored Evidence in Patent Case Against Apple”, “Allegedly” would have been left out. Since is shows Apple’s eff’d up ways, it must be “Alleged”. Still pro Apple, they just reported the story to reflect that.

http://twitter.com/GRZLA Grizzly Atoms

I am the one who submitted this article to BGR. In the subject area I told them how obvious it is that they are getting checks from Apple. I basically called their hand, sadly all press is good press.

http://twitter.com/shawnwill16 shawn williams

well BGR is the only site to say apple “allegedly doctored” every other site said they did…well because they did.

BGRisanapplesite

Well…. BGR title for this post says Apple allegedly doctored

as if the images doctored themselves…..

Confused

Don’t worry Apple will soon sue bgr because their website looks like Apple’s. Apple owns the color white, which is used as a background, plus if you squint at the bgr logo, it looks like an apple.

Anonymous

I wanna see the iFans back this one up…

Alvin A. Smith

I’m going to have to call shenanigans on this one. It really doesn’t make sense that Apple’s legal counsel wouldn’t expect that Samsung’s attorneys know what the product for which they represent looks like. Doctoring the photographs has zero chance of flying. They have a case on other grounds apart from the aspect ratio. While it is a certainty that Apple is capable of playing dirty, this seems too busch league for any large company to try to pull off.

serpentor

If the court doesn’t penalize Apple for this, you’ll know why their counsel did this.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Jorge-Acosta/535374448 Jorge Acosta

im not shocked we all know apple is afraid of competition.. fuc**n losers

This is not meant to be a factual statement! This is meant for informational purposes only!

QNX Please

You stay classy Apple.

Anonymous

apple will then claim they invented that size as well and there was no doctoring. apple will then claim to hold patent over the legal system and declare themselves winners in every trial. apple already patented anything rectangle.

apple needs to fall. big time just be humbled to the point where they stop trying to sue and instead do what others do. COMPETE.

deluxe

All the more reason apple needs to SHUT UP about patents and work at making the iphone better without copying android as in the case of drop down notifications.

Smartphone Blast!

Surprising that something like that would slip by.

Mluu83

They also removed the Samsung logo.

Joe

Apple has a clean image on the outside, but it is dirty and low of the lows inside ! Beauty is only skin deep !

fishkid13

sammsung’s lawyers should be all over this. not some tech blogs

MacGoo

Devil’s advocate: I’m a designer, and I deal with this daily. There’s a possibility that the image simply was stretched by the application used by the litigator, and they simply didn’t notice. Time and again I’m frustrated by non-designers apparent apathy when it comes to aspect ratios of images/logos/whatever.

That being said, since this is (1) Apple we’re talking about and (2) a case about design rights, the likelihood of that being the case is pretty minuscule. Let’s be real: Apple doctored the photo. Will they get in trouble? Slap on the wrist, tops. Plausible deniability and all that. How Samsung didn’t catch it before the injunction was granted is what blows my mind.

http://mitchs.posterous.com Mitch Samuels

Wouldn’t the iPad have been stretched also?

MacGoo

Depends on the size of the image and the size of the container the image is placed in.

KCRic

Did the application also “simply” remove the Samsung logo and open up the app drawer too?

MacGoo

Hence the preface of “devil’s advocate”. It’s a problem I face regularly as a designer among non-designers. Read my full comment for my full thoughts please.